Andrea Fox
Andrea Fox is Senior Editor at Healthcare IT News. She has 20 years of experience covering numerous beats, including digital modernization, public health, environment and utilities, transportation and government policy and operations.
10:18 am
September 27, 2024
The commission is expected to codify a rule next month that requires cellular carriers to georoute wireless 988 calls to the closest national service provider, better connecting callers in crisis to local suicide prevention and care services, HHS said.
10:18 am
September 26, 2024
The global IT outage on July 19 was a catastrophe of cinematic proportions, said the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, but the cybersecurity giant insists new and revised procedures would now catch any similar mistake before it's pushed out.
11:11 am
September 25, 2024
So says a new OIG audit, which found the VA and Oracle Health have been misaligned in their responses to outages throughout Electronic Health Record Modernization. While the agency has made procedural improvements, it needs to go further, auditors say.
04:33 pm
September 23, 2024
The high-stakes lawsuit alleges that the EHR giant violated federal law prohibiting unfair business practices. Epic, meanwhile, says that Particle has violated HIPAA.
04:00 pm
September 23, 2024
Despite a greater ability for healthcare entities to challenge regulatory decrees in court, increased litigation could result in unfavorable court decisions that are harder to fix, healthcare attorneys say.
01:45 am
September 20, 2024
The investigation, billed as the first of its kind, had alleged that Dallas-based Piece Technologies made "deceptive claims" about the accuracy of its artificial intelligence products, which are deployed at several hospitals in the Lone Star State.
01:30 pm
September 19, 2024
Crowdstrike has new partnerships that bolster and streamline SOC processes and spur AI-driven security innovations. Also, Oracle, Meditech and Innovaccer add tools to improve daily healthcare operations.
11:58 am
September 18, 2024
OpenAI's GPT-4 and Google's Gemini did not recommend opioid medication for one group over another – suggesting that artificial intelligence could help address clinician bias and improve fairness in treating pain.
11:39 am
September 17, 2024
Compromised by a phishing email, the health system says some employee and patient personal information may have been impacted.
12:05 pm
September 16, 2024
A week of discussion spearheaded by the patient advocate group aims to highlight the risks of harm from unauthorized access to healthcare information over the internet. There should be "no aggregation without representation," its leaders say.
